Do you qualify?

Anyone can buy this ticket. But if you're under 16, a student (16-19 in school or college), over 60 or disabled with a National Concessionary Travel Pass, find out more about tickets and passes.

The costs and the benefits

If you want to travel between a Greater Manchester train station, and a Metrolink tram stop outside the City Zone, you can buy a combined ticket.

You can also travel between a Greater Manchester train station and a Metrolink tram stop within the City Zone if you have the following tickets:

A train ticket from anywhere in Greater Manchester into Manchester city centre. This can also be used on trams in the Metrolink 'City Zone' for no extra cost. See Metrolink network map.

A train ticket from anywhere in Greater Manchester to another Greater Manchester rail station, and you have to change between city-centre stations, you can use the tram between those stations for no extra cost.

The cost depends on how far you're travelling, but it's cheaper than buying two separate tickets.

Buy your combined ticket

If you're starting your peak return journey from a Greater Manchester train station to a tram stop outside the City Zone, buy your combined ticket at the station ticket office, or on the train if the ticket office is closed.

If you're starting from a tram stop outside the city centre zone to a Greater Manchester train station, buy your ticket from the ticket machine at the tram stop before you travel:

press the ‘Day, Family or Group Travelcards and Railzone tickets’ button

choose ‘Railzone’

press the button for the rail zone that covers the station you're going to. If you don't know which zone, press the information button next to each Railzone, or check the ticket information poster at the tram stop.